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Cretobibio montsecensis

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Taxonomy
Cretobibio montsecensis was named by Skartveit and Ansorge (2020). Its type specimen is SNSB-BSPG 2020 I 4, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (Ansorge FGWG coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the la Pedrera de Rubies Formation of Spain. It is the type species of Cretobibio.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Cretobibio montsecensis Skartveit and Ansorge p. 165 figs. 3, 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilyBibionoidea
familyBibionidae
subfamilyCretobibioninae
genusCretobibio
speciesmontsecensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Cretobibio montsecensis Skartveit and Ansorge 2020
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Early/Lower Barremian or 130.00000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Barremian130.0 - 125.45Spain Cretobibio montsecensis (type locality: 118913)